Adrian Littlejohn
@yorksfella59.bsky.social
Proud to be a Yorkshireman of Scottish descent. Lefty Humanist. Green Party member. Dislikes Tories. Hates racism, bigotry, misogyny, Putin, Trump and Farage. Loves music - Alan Hull/Lindisfarne, Runrig, Springsteen, Dylan, Cohen, Al Stewart. #FBPE. 🏴. 🇺🇦.
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"These are the iron laws that have always determined global power."
A rare honest moment there from President Trump.
So does our Prime Minister believe in international law or the law of the jungle?
That's the choice here in opposing or supporting imperialism.
A rare honest moment there from President Trump.
So does our Prime Minister believe in international law or the law of the jungle?
That's the choice here in opposing or supporting imperialism.
January 3, 2026 at 5:00 PM
"These are the iron laws that have always determined global power."
A rare honest moment there from President Trump.
So does our Prime Minister believe in international law or the law of the jungle?
That's the choice here in opposing or supporting imperialism.
A rare honest moment there from President Trump.
So does our Prime Minister believe in international law or the law of the jungle?
That's the choice here in opposing or supporting imperialism.
And naturally, the fact that Venezuela has the world's largest reserves of oil has absolutely no relevance at all.
Overnight, the USA has become a rogue state.
I believe Sir Keir has gone so far as to mumble something vague about respecting international law...
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Overnight, the USA has become a rogue state.
I believe Sir Keir has gone so far as to mumble something vague about respecting international law...
share.google/poXhP1EE8V8h...
Donald Trump says US is ‘going to run’ Venezuela after overnight strikes – live
US president says ‘we’re going to run the country until a safe, proper and judicious transition’ can take place and that he is ‘prepared’ for a second attack
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January 3, 2026 at 5:43 PM
And naturally, the fact that Venezuela has the world's largest reserves of oil has absolutely no relevance at all.
Overnight, the USA has become a rogue state.
I believe Sir Keir has gone so far as to mumble something vague about respecting international law...
share.google/poXhP1EE8V8h...
Overnight, the USA has become a rogue state.
I believe Sir Keir has gone so far as to mumble something vague about respecting international law...
share.google/poXhP1EE8V8h...
Afternoon, President #Trump. Just a thought... Now you're in the business of illegally abducting foreign politicians, maybe you'd like one even more to your taste?
You're welcome...
You're welcome...
January 3, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Afternoon, President #Trump. Just a thought... Now you're in the business of illegally abducting foreign politicians, maybe you'd like one even more to your taste?
You're welcome...
You're welcome...
Jesus Christ! The Epstein files must be worse than anyone anticipated...
Maduro is no saint. But this illegal act of war was carried out without the required approval of Congress.
How long is the USA going to accept a criminally insane authoritarian as its President?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...
Maduro is no saint. But this illegal act of war was carried out without the required approval of Congress.
How long is the USA going to accept a criminally insane authoritarian as its President?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...
Venezuela latest: Trump says US has 'captured' President Maduro in strikes on country - live updates
The US attorney general says Maduro will face
www.bbc.co.uk
January 3, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Jesus Christ! The Epstein files must be worse than anyone anticipated...
Maduro is no saint. But this illegal act of war was carried out without the required approval of Congress.
How long is the USA going to accept a criminally insane authoritarian as its President?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...
Maduro is no saint. But this illegal act of war was carried out without the required approval of Congress.
How long is the USA going to accept a criminally insane authoritarian as its President?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...
Please Claudia! I know who the Secret Traitor is... 👍
January 2, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Please Claudia! I know who the Secret Traitor is... 👍
First point: this article clearly explains how chaotic a Reform cabinet would be. For one thing, they're all fractious ex-Tories. Hardly 'Reform' is it? More a case of As You Were!
Though in fairness to Lee Anderson, this will be the third party he's represented 🤣
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Though in fairness to Lee Anderson, this will be the third party he's represented 🤣
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Here’s a pick-me-up for the January blues: this could well be Nigel Farage’s last year on top | Simon Jenkins
There’s no doubting the charisma of its leader, but Reform UK lacks the depth and experience needed to govern – and voters are quickly realising that, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
www.theguardian.com
January 2, 2026 at 1:43 PM
First point: this article clearly explains how chaotic a Reform cabinet would be. For one thing, they're all fractious ex-Tories. Hardly 'Reform' is it? More a case of As You Were!
Though in fairness to Lee Anderson, this will be the third party he's represented 🤣
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Though in fairness to Lee Anderson, this will be the third party he's represented 🤣
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Jimmy Nail has written some fine songs, but probably none better than this.
Mark Knopfler's guitar is a subtle highlight.
youtube.com/watch?v=_g4h...
Mark Knopfler's guitar is a subtle highlight.
youtube.com/watch?v=_g4h...
Big River: The Tyne - Then & Now (Jimmy Nail)
YouTube video by Martin Vos
youtube.com
January 2, 2026 at 9:06 AM
Jimmy Nail has written some fine songs, but probably none better than this.
Mark Knopfler's guitar is a subtle highlight.
youtube.com/watch?v=_g4h...
Mark Knopfler's guitar is a subtle highlight.
youtube.com/watch?v=_g4h...
"They say aspirin is good for thinning out the blood, and I don’t want thick blood pouring through my heart,” Trump said. “I want nice, thin blood pouring through my heart. Does that make sense?"
And there was me thinking he thinned it out with bleach... 🤮🤣
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
And there was me thinking he thinned it out with bleach... 🤮🤣
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Trump says he takes more aspirin than recommended but his ‘health is perfect’
President tells Wall Street Journal in interview that his doctors encouraged him to take lower dose but he declined
www.theguardian.com
January 1, 2026 at 8:47 PM
"They say aspirin is good for thinning out the blood, and I don’t want thick blood pouring through my heart,” Trump said. “I want nice, thin blood pouring through my heart. Does that make sense?"
And there was me thinking he thinned it out with bleach... 🤮🤣
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
And there was me thinking he thinned it out with bleach... 🤮🤣
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
So Farage wants to spend "every single penny in the bank account" before May’s elections...
Shouldn't that be "every single rouble"? 🤮
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Shouldn't that be "every single rouble"? 🤮
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Nigel Farage to go ‘double or quits’ on local elections with £5m spend
The Reform leader says he wants to spend ‘every single penny in the bank account’ before May’s elections in the hope of converting his party’s rise in the polls
www.thetimes.com
January 1, 2026 at 4:36 PM
So Farage wants to spend "every single penny in the bank account" before May’s elections...
Shouldn't that be "every single rouble"? 🤮
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Shouldn't that be "every single rouble"? 🤮
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Imagine, if you can, a sort of three-man Scottish incarnation of The Pogues.
That's the nearest I can get to describing Peat and Diesel...
youtube.com/watch?v=zo2z...
That's the nearest I can get to describing Peat and Diesel...
youtube.com/watch?v=zo2z...
Peat and Diesel Western Isles
YouTube video by Peat & Diesel
youtube.com
January 1, 2026 at 11:22 AM
Imagine, if you can, a sort of three-man Scottish incarnation of The Pogues.
That's the nearest I can get to describing Peat and Diesel...
youtube.com/watch?v=zo2z...
That's the nearest I can get to describing Peat and Diesel...
youtube.com/watch?v=zo2z...
I'm not sure letterbox format does the video any favours... But what a glorious song!
Happy New Year everyone!
youtube.com/watch?v=7qTb...
Happy New Year everyone!
youtube.com/watch?v=7qTb...
The Proclaimers - Streets of Edinburgh (Official Video)
YouTube video by The Proclaimers
youtube.com
December 31, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I'm not sure letterbox format does the video any favours... But what a glorious song!
Happy New Year everyone!
youtube.com/watch?v=7qTb...
Happy New Year everyone!
youtube.com/watch?v=7qTb...
I can only hope that, whatever the PM agrees to as part of his disgraceful sucking up to #Trump, British consumers will simply refuse to buy the disgusting stuff, no matter how cheap it is! 🤮
Don’t know who needs to hear this but “taking back control” from a Union you’re a member of, with full voting rights, to hand it to an American lunatic you bent over backwards to flatter yet he publicly humiliates you, is not taking back control at all, it’s relinquishing it.
White House demands British supermarkets stock chlorinated chicken
White House pushing Sir Keir Starmer to make concessions on food standards
www.telegraph.co.uk
December 31, 2025 at 9:27 AM
I can only hope that, whatever the PM agrees to as part of his disgraceful sucking up to #Trump, British consumers will simply refuse to buy the disgusting stuff, no matter how cheap it is! 🤮
Old photo: it's quite dull and grey this morning. Here's how it was a year ago...
Have a great day, and a happy evening everyone!
Have a great day, and a happy evening everyone!
Some lovely colours in the last dawn of 2024...
December 31, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Old photo: it's quite dull and grey this morning. Here's how it was a year ago...
Have a great day, and a happy evening everyone!
Have a great day, and a happy evening everyone!
See, I'm not always complaining!
There's much still to be done - but the good people at Save Windermere campaign have seen some solid progress this year.
Their blog, below, will tell you more! 👍
www.savewindermere.com/blog/underst...
There's much still to be done - but the good people at Save Windermere campaign have seen some solid progress this year.
Their blog, below, will tell you more! 👍
www.savewindermere.com/blog/underst...
2025: A Year of Significant Impact for Save Windermere · Save Windermere
2025 was a breakthrough year for Save Windermere. Discover how sustained public pressure forced regulators to act, exposed illegal sewage spills, unlocked £200m in investment, and set a path to ending...
www.savewindermere.com
December 30, 2025 at 9:46 PM
See, I'm not always complaining!
There's much still to be done - but the good people at Save Windermere campaign have seen some solid progress this year.
Their blog, below, will tell you more! 👍
www.savewindermere.com/blog/underst...
There's much still to be done - but the good people at Save Windermere campaign have seen some solid progress this year.
Their blog, below, will tell you more! 👍
www.savewindermere.com/blog/underst...
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December 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Old photo: The year has turned, the days are lengthening. Slowly but surely, Spring will come.
Heres a foretaste, bright blossom in the churchyard of St Mary & St Hardulph, Breedon on the Hill, Leicestershire.
Heres a foretaste, bright blossom in the churchyard of St Mary & St Hardulph, Breedon on the Hill, Leicestershire.
December 30, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Old photo: The year has turned, the days are lengthening. Slowly but surely, Spring will come.
Heres a foretaste, bright blossom in the churchyard of St Mary & St Hardulph, Breedon on the Hill, Leicestershire.
Heres a foretaste, bright blossom in the churchyard of St Mary & St Hardulph, Breedon on the Hill, Leicestershire.
Classic Yorkshire Water! (I speak as one of their victims - sorry, customers).
Plenty of money to recently bung under-the-counter millions to an ultra-greedy CEO.
But nothing to spend on maintenance of their infrastructure...
#NationaliseWater, Labour!
www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/2572729...
Plenty of money to recently bung under-the-counter millions to an ultra-greedy CEO.
But nothing to spend on maintenance of their infrastructure...
#NationaliseWater, Labour!
www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/2572729...
'It's absolute chaos' - burst sewage pipe blights village near York
A burst sewage pipe and flooding is “causing chaos” in a village near York, according to residents.
www.yorkpress.co.uk
December 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Classic Yorkshire Water! (I speak as one of their victims - sorry, customers).
Plenty of money to recently bung under-the-counter millions to an ultra-greedy CEO.
But nothing to spend on maintenance of their infrastructure...
#NationaliseWater, Labour!
www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/2572729...
Plenty of money to recently bung under-the-counter millions to an ultra-greedy CEO.
But nothing to spend on maintenance of their infrastructure...
#NationaliseWater, Labour!
www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/2572729...
Sadly predictable. Most people already knew #Farage is a racist. So their opinion didn't change, like him or not.
A few people hadn't twigged, and turned against him. A few more liked him better - which tells you all you need to know about Reform's targets... 🤮
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
A few people hadn't twigged, and turned against him. A few more liked him better - which tells you all you need to know about Reform's targets... 🤮
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Farage is still popular despite racism claims, poll finds
Exclusive: More than 20 former pupils of Dulwich College have accused the Reform UK leader of holding ‘racist, antisemitic and fascist views’ as a pupil
www.independent.co.uk
December 30, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Sadly predictable. Most people already knew #Farage is a racist. So their opinion didn't change, like him or not.
A few people hadn't twigged, and turned against him. A few more liked him better - which tells you all you need to know about Reform's targets... 🤮
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
A few people hadn't twigged, and turned against him. A few more liked him better - which tells you all you need to know about Reform's targets... 🤮
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Quite a few recognisable faces here - as well as some bloke called Dylan... 👍
youtu.be/VbPa31KOZg0?...
youtu.be/VbPa31KOZg0?...
Bob Dylan - My Back Pages
YouTube video by Nicolò Villani
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December 30, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Quite a few recognisable faces here - as well as some bloke called Dylan... 👍
youtu.be/VbPa31KOZg0?...
youtu.be/VbPa31KOZg0?...
#Trump is an asshole. I realise that this isn't, itself, news.
I heard his news conference. He used the word 'deal' at least 6 or 7 times.
Everything's a deal to him. There's no morality, no good or bad, right or wrong. Just transactions.
I hope he rots in hell. Soon.
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I heard his news conference. He used the word 'deal' at least 6 or 7 times.
Everything's a deal to him. There's no morality, no good or bad, right or wrong. Just transactions.
I hope he rots in hell. Soon.
share.google/MaApciC3ih9v...
Trump says reconstruction of Gaza will begin ‘soon’ as he meets Netanyahu at Mar-a-Lago – live
US president says he and Israeli prime minister will discuss ‘five major subjects’ and Gaza will be among them
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December 29, 2025 at 7:39 PM
#Trump is an asshole. I realise that this isn't, itself, news.
I heard his news conference. He used the word 'deal' at least 6 or 7 times.
Everything's a deal to him. There's no morality, no good or bad, right or wrong. Just transactions.
I hope he rots in hell. Soon.
share.google/MaApciC3ih9v...
I heard his news conference. He used the word 'deal' at least 6 or 7 times.
Everything's a deal to him. There's no morality, no good or bad, right or wrong. Just transactions.
I hope he rots in hell. Soon.
share.google/MaApciC3ih9v...
Be aware! I didn't know this...
"With one of those treatments you could remove every single invertebrate out of 25 Olympic swimming pools of water".
So a polite request to dog owners... Please be careful what anti-flea treatments you use on your pets.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/environ...
"With one of those treatments you could remove every single invertebrate out of 25 Olympic swimming pools of water".
So a polite request to dog owners... Please be careful what anti-flea treatments you use on your pets.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/environ...
The hidden menace polluting Yorkshire's rivers every dog owner should know about
Campaigners are seeking to raise the profile of a source of pollution unwittingly being introduced to rivers and lakes. Stuart Minting reports.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk
December 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Be aware! I didn't know this...
"With one of those treatments you could remove every single invertebrate out of 25 Olympic swimming pools of water".
So a polite request to dog owners... Please be careful what anti-flea treatments you use on your pets.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/environ...
"With one of those treatments you could remove every single invertebrate out of 25 Olympic swimming pools of water".
So a polite request to dog owners... Please be careful what anti-flea treatments you use on your pets.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/environ...
Take an ordinary Eurovision Song Contest winning entry, albeit one with a pretty tune. Then put it in the hands of two great musicians (both, sadly, no longer with us).
This is what happens...
youtube.com/watch?v=s8oq...
This is what happens...
youtube.com/watch?v=s8oq...
Sinead O'Connor & Terry Hall - All Kinds of Everything
YouTube video by Cerridwen
youtube.com
December 29, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Take an ordinary Eurovision Song Contest winning entry, albeit one with a pretty tune. Then put it in the hands of two great musicians (both, sadly, no longer with us).
This is what happens...
youtube.com/watch?v=s8oq...
This is what happens...
youtube.com/watch?v=s8oq...
Surely there are no grounds for disagreement? The MAGA 'Christian' Nationalist groups in the US are unashamedly white supremacists. The same applies over here.
I wonder if they, or Yaxley-Lennon, have ever stopped to consider what colour Jesus would have been?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
I wonder if they, or Yaxley-Lennon, have ever stopped to consider what colour Jesus would have been?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Tommy Robinson says he found Jesus in prison. Churches disagree about how to respond
C of E faces dilemma as far right claims Christianity to push agenda that often clashes with gospel message
www.theguardian.com
December 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Surely there are no grounds for disagreement? The MAGA 'Christian' Nationalist groups in the US are unashamedly white supremacists. The same applies over here.
I wonder if they, or Yaxley-Lennon, have ever stopped to consider what colour Jesus would have been?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
I wonder if they, or Yaxley-Lennon, have ever stopped to consider what colour Jesus would have been?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Good job that everyone's favourite millionaire racist is on the side of us common people, eh? 🤮
There are, at least, some vague signs that Reform UK Ltd may be starting to disappear down the toilet.
And, if so, this is the biggest turd that will be flushed away.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
There are, at least, some vague signs that Reform UK Ltd may be starting to disappear down the toilet.
And, if so, this is the biggest turd that will be flushed away.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Farage’s child benefit policy ‘would plunge 450,000 into poverty’
Exclusive: New analysis by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has led charities to warn about the impact of Farage’s plans on the two child benefit cap
www.independent.co.uk
December 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Good job that everyone's favourite millionaire racist is on the side of us common people, eh? 🤮
There are, at least, some vague signs that Reform UK Ltd may be starting to disappear down the toilet.
And, if so, this is the biggest turd that will be flushed away.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
There are, at least, some vague signs that Reform UK Ltd may be starting to disappear down the toilet.
And, if so, this is the biggest turd that will be flushed away.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...